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[quote="radreps"]Hi As we all know, there are a lot of sharks and cowboys out there. I am looking at having my driveway paved. I have got one of those old concrete drives, made up of broken bits of paving slabs. I just want to find out what sort of price i should expect to pay per square m...

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[quote="Tom Evans"]All, I need to lay a concrete slab so that the 12ft trampoline in the garden is level. HOwever this is my first attempt at anything like this. At the moment it is just sitting on soil butI can see this sinking in the wet weather so want to lay a concrete base for this bu...

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[quote="domiles1"]I've got to pull some trees up, dig the roots up and I want to lay a block drive. How deep should I dig and what layers of what should I use before the blocks?[/quote]100mm of hardcore then 75mm of sand please make sure you wack your hardcore

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[quote="Nitrospud"]BTT Sorry for the hijack, but this post seems to have been missed. I'm in a similar boat, need to lay a concrete slab for a pre fab garage. The slab will measure 4.2M x 8.7M and is 150mm thick with steel mesh reinforcing. I intended to lay Ready Mix in two or three equal...

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if you are laying for foot trafic only then you will be ok. if you are layiny for a car then you real need too take the lot up or dig one small hole and check you have at least 100mm of packed down hardcore under your concret. if it is for a car and you have any cracks or dips or hollows then be saf...

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